Collar stiffener



Feb. 26, 1935. .1. ESPOSITO COLLAR STIFFENER Filed Aug. 15, 1932 k l m Inventor o Zn fi vos z'i 'o By @W Patented Feb.26,19 35 1,992,354

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COLLAR STIFFENEB John Esposito, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application August 15, 1932, Serial No. 628,923

1 Claim. (01. 2-132) This invention relates to means for stiflening Each stiffening member is placed through one a soft collar so as to keep the same in proper of the openings 2 with its small end passing shape and to prevent the points from turning towards the middle of the flap and then the enupwardly, the general object of the invention belarged end is placed in the tip or point of the 5 ing to provide a pair of members formed of upper flap and when the two members are put 5 celluloid or the like which are. adapted to be in place, they will stiffen the upper flap and hold placed within the outer flap of the collarthrough it in its proper shape, keeping the points from suitable openings formed in the under part of said turning upwardly and also enabling the collar outer flap. to be worn in hot weather with but little danger The invention also consists in certain other of wilting. By reference to Figure 1 it will be 10 features of construction and in the combination noted that the ope 2 ext d a oss t broa and arrangement of the several parts to be hereportions of the points or tips of the collar; also, inafter fully described, illustrated in the accomhat the S Ope 2 are gradually reduced in panying drawing and specifically pointed out in width from their transverse centers to their ends. the appended claim. By virtue of this, the stifiening members 3 'may 15 In describing the invention in detail, reference be readily introduced between the flap and the will be had to the accompanying drawing wherelining in the manner before explicitly described, in like characters denote like or corresponding and when the stiffening members are in proper parts throughout the several views, and in working position there is no liability of either which:-- stifi'ening member being casually displaced. 20

Figure 1 is a view of a collar with the outer It is thought from the foregoing description flap turned up to show the openings through that the advantages and novel features of the inwhich the stiffening members are placed to lie vention will be readily apparent. within a space formed between the outer part It is to be understood that changes may be of the flap and its lining. made in the construction and in the combination 25 Fig. 2 is a view of one of the stiffening members. and arrangement of the several parts provided Fig. 3 isa section on line 33 of Fig. 1. that such changes fall within the scope of the Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a collar having appended claim. the stiffening members therein. Having thus described my invention, what I The drawing shows the invention in use with a claim as new is:- 30

detachable collar, but it will of course be under- The collar described consisting essentially of stood that the invention can be used witha collar a band and a flap attached to the upper edge attached to a shirt. of the band, said flap having pointed tips at As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the outer flap A its ends, a lining corresponding in area with and of the collar is provided with a lining 1 which attached to the flap and forming a space between 35 covers the entire inner face of the flap and is so itself and said flap, said lining having across the sewn thereto as to leave a space between itself inner portions of the pointed tips slots disposed and the outer part of the flap. A diagonally at acute angles to the line on which the flap is arranged opening 2 is formed in the lining adattached to the upper edge of the band, said slots jacent each end of the flap and these openings being gradually reduced in width from their 40 communicate with the space between the flap transverse centers to their ends, and stiffening and its lining. I provide a pair of stiffening members of flat flexible material inserted endmembers 3 which are preferably formed of celluwise inwardly through said slots into the space loid and each member is of substantially the between the flap and its lining, each stifiening shape shown in Fig. 2, with an elonga'ted substanmember having a pointed enlargement at its 45 tially straight major portion but having one end outer end sheathed in and conforming to and provided with a pointed enlargement 4, which fully occupying the portion of the flap outwardly fits in the points or tips of the upper flap of the beyond the adjacent slot. collar. Of course this enlargement will be made to conform to the tip of the particular collar in JOHN spogrro,

which it is to be placed. 

